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No; 624,863. Patented May 9, I899. B. PBAHAR.

BAG FRAME.

(Applicatinn filed Mar. 1a; 1899.

(No Model.)

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LOUIS B. PRAHAR, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

BAG-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 624,863, dated May 9,1899.

Application filed March 16, 1899. Serial No. 709,301. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, Louis B. PRAHAR, of the city of New York, borough ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kin gs and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Bag- Frame, of which the foll-owin g is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in bag-frames, and especially tothe frames. of chatelaine-bags. The object of the invention is to soconstruct the frame that an ornament of any desired design can bequickly and conveniently applied thereto and to so secure a bag to theframe that only a single inlay is needed. m

Afurther object of the invention is to provide a frame to which anopen-work ornament may be secured in a manner to clearly define theopenings therein and so that the material of the bag will appear at theopenings in the ornament, adding materially to its appearance.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the frame that shouldthe members of said frame be accidentally sprung apart while locked themembers will yield considerably and yet not open sufficiently to alloweven a small article to drop from the bag.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar characters of reference indi-- cate correspondin gparts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the upper portion of a chatelaine-bagand the improved frame applied to said bag. Fig. 2 is an inner face ofthe ornament for the frame, the latch beingomitted. Fig. 3 is aperspective View of the body of the frame. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectionthrough the front member of the body of the frame, the ornament attachedto said body, and that portion of the bag attached to said front member,the latch being shown in side elevation, the section being takenpractically on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of aslightly-modified form of front member of the body of the frame; andFig. 6 is a vertical section through the said modified form of frontmember of the frame, the front ornament, and a portion ofthe bag.

I'Ieretofore in the construction of frames for chatelaine-bags it hasbeen necessary to make new dies and construct a new frame for eachdesign of ornament, and said ornaments when made in open-work lose muchof the desired effect, since such ornaments are laid directly upon fiatmetal surfaces. I aim by my improved construction of frame to fullybring out all the features of the design used as a front ornament and toprovide a frame that may be termed a stock-frame, sincefront ornamentsof various designs can be quickly and conveniently attached to saidstock-frames.

The body of the frame consists of a front memberA and a back member B,the two members being pivotally connected at their ends in the usualmanner, and the front member A is adapted to close upon the back memberB. The back member B is provided with a forwardly-extending marginalflange 10, and the rings 11, adaptedto receive a chain, are connectedwith said back member, and the back member B of the frame is providedwith the usual inlay 12. The front member A is provided also with aforwardly-extending marginal flange 13. Therefore theplain or bodyportion of the member A is presented to the inlay, and when the membersof the frame are closed the flange of the front member will lie-beneaththe flange of the back member. An inlay is not needed for the frontmember A of the frame, since the body portion of said member correspondsto the inlay ordinarily employed, and the front face of the said frontmember consists of an ornamental plate 0, which plate is given a shapeapproximating the shape of the front memor ornament G, as shown in Fig.2. These guide pins or spurs are employed in order that apertures 16,produced in the front plate or ornament C, may be brought in properregistry with corresponding apertures 17 made in the body portion of thefront member A of the frame.

Since the front plate or ornament 0 extends above the flange 13 of thefront member of the frame, a latch 18, preferably of a spring type, maybe secured to the back central surface of the plate or ornament, and thehead 19 of this latch is made to pass downward through an opening in theflange 13 and through an opening 20 in the body of said front member toa point beyond its inner face, so that thelatch-head may engage with asuitable keeper provided on the back member 13 of the frame. The upperedge of the material of which the bag is made is made to enter the spacebetween the front plate or ornament 0 and the body of the front memberof the frame, and rivets 21 are passed through.

the openings 16 and 17 in the front plate and body portion of the frontmember, the rivets passing likewise through the material of the bag, asshown in Fig. 4. In this manner the rivets that connect the two sectionsof the front member of the frame likewise serve to hold the material ofthe bag in proper relation to the said member. The material of the bagis likewise secured in the customary way between the inlay 12 and theback member B.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a slight modification in the construction of thefront member A of the frame, in which it will be observed that but asingle strip 22 is employed, having its edges facing to the front and tothe rear, and at the front edge of said member guide spurs or pins 23are located, adapted to enter the recesses 15 in the front plate orornament O, which front plate or ornament may be of the same characteror of the same design as that illustrated in connection with the frameshown in Fig. 3;. but when the form of front member illustrated in Fig.5 is employed an inlay D is also used, as shown in Fig. 6, and thisinlay consists of a body-plate 24 and an upper marginalforwardly-extending flange 25, the flange of the inlay D extending overthe body portion of said front member of the frame.

It will be observed that the members of the frame when locked togethermay spring apart a considerable distance without disclosing an openingof sufficient width to permit even a small article to escape, since theflanges 13 and 10 may be made quite deep and one passes over theotherwhen the members of the frame are closed, the forward edge of theflange of the back member engaging with the rear face of the front plateor ornament O of the front member, and the flange 25 in the modifiedform of the front member of the frame corresponds to the flange 13 inthe form of member illustrated in Fig. 3.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a frame for a bag, the combination with a memberof the frame, of an outer'plate attached to said member and adapted toextend beyond the upper portion of said member, the said outer platebeing so attached to the member of the frame as to leave a space toreceive the edge of the material of which the bag is made, for thepurpose set forth.

2. In a bag-frame, the combination, with the front member of the frame,of a back piece and a flange projecting from the back piece, and a platewhich may be an ornament, arranged for attachment to saidflange, for thepurpose specified.

3. In a bag-frame, afront member provided at its front edge withoutwardly-extending guide-spurs and a front plate which may be anornament having recesses in its back face adapted to receive theguide-spurs, the said .front plate being provided with apertures for thepurpose set forth.

4. In a bag-frame, afront member for said frame, comprising abody-plate, a forwardlyeXtending flange, a front plate adapted forengagement with the flange, which front plate may be of an ornamentalcharacter, and means for securing the front plate to the bodyplate ofthe member, for the purpose specifled.

5. The combination, with the front member of a bag-frame,of anornamental plate adapted for attachment to the front edge of the saidfront member, and means for forminga pocket between said front memberand said front plate, for the purpose described.

6. In a bag-frame, the combination, with a back member, consisting of abody-plate and a forwardly-extending flange, of a front member pivotallyattached to the back member and adapted to close therein, the frontmember consisting of a body and a forwardly-extending flange, and meansfor attaching an ornament to the flange of the said front member, forthe purpose described.

7. A bag-frame comprisinga back member having a body-plate and aforwardly-extending flange, a front member pivotally attached to theback member and adapted to close therein, an ornamental plate adaptedfor attachment to the front edge of said front member and extendingbeyond the upper portion thereof, a space or pocket being formed at therear of'the ornamental plate and a latch secured to the back surface ofthe ornamental plate at the upper portion thereof, for the purposespecified.

LOUIS B. PRAIIAR.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, EVERARD BoLToN MARSHALL.

